#principal

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ↗

— Horace

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. ↗

— David Hume

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Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

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The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. ↗

— Neal Boortz

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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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